Europeans: Arvo Pärt
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About this event
The event is free to attend but any donation you are able to make will help support our charity.
Join us for our first digital Dash Café on Wednesday 28 October! This time our EUROPEANS series celebrates the life and work of one of the world’s most-loved composers Arvo Pärt, who turned 85 this year.
A mini-concert performed by a British pianist Sophia Rahman and Estonian violinist Andres Kaljuste at the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia will be interwoven with a conversation with both musicians and Michael Pärt, son of the composer and Chairman of the Arvo Pärt Centre, hosted by Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton.
The conversation will explore the socio-political and musical environment in the Soviet Union in the seventies that led Pärt to an eight year long creative crisis in search for his own personal form of expression.
In 1976, Pärt emerged with a new and highly original musical language - tintinnabuli - expressing the composer’s special relationship to silence and to a deeply sensed attitude to life, based on religious practice and a quest for truth, beauty and purity. The religious aspect of Pärt’s tintinnabuli music led to more and more confrontations with Soviet officials and forced Pärt’s family to emigrate in 1980.
You will hear music written during this turbulent time, as well as pieces created after his return to Estonia in 2010, where he lives with his family today.
We will host an audience Q&A with participants at the end of the event.
This event will take place on Zoom via Eventbrite. You will be sent a link via the email you have registered with, nearer the date of the event.
For any queries please contact us at dashcafe@dasharts.org.uk.
With much gratitude to The Embassy of Estonia in London and the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia.
Image credit: Kaupo Kikkas
Organiser Dash Arts
Organiser of Europeans: Arvo Pärt
Dash Arts makes new theatre, music, art and dance with international artists that challenge the way we see the world. Since May 2010, we have hosted monthly free Dash Cafés featuring live music, film, performance, readings and discussion at venues across London. Dash Cafés are intimate and informal: a chance to encounter new ideas, surprising perspectives and unusual artists who shed new light on the regions in which we work. From January 2018, Dash Arts embarks on a new journey EUTOPIA, investigating what it means to be European. We will highlight and celebrate Europe’s diversity and hidden marvels; confront generalization; and encourage new insights and fierce debate. With EUTOPIA, our Dash Cafés will focus on different cities across wider Europe – investigating ideas, trends and artists.
